Friday, September 11, 2015

September 11


National Day of Service and Remembrance

Patriot Day

National Hot Cross Bun Day
("Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! one a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny two a penny, Hot cross buns!" ...Everybody Sing Along!!!)

Remember Freedom Day
( "A reminder to all that freedom never comes cheaply. Study it, preserve it, and pass it on." Wellcat.com)

Make Your Bed Day
(This day only falls once a year, so why not make it now!?!?)

Libraries Remember Day

No News is Good News Day

Women's Baseball Day

Birthdays
1862 - O. Henry (William S. Porter), short-story writer
1924 - Tom Landry, NFL Dallas Cowboys coach
1940 - Brian DePalma, filmmaker (Scarface, Carrie, The Untouchables)
1946 - Lola Falana, actress
1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress
1967 - Harry Connick Jr., actor, singer

Today In History 
1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.

1962 - The Beatles recorded their 1st single "Love Me Do".

1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

2001 - Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.

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